Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore …

Studies of attention and working memory address the fundamental limits in our ability to
encode and maintain behaviorally relevant information, processes that are critical for goal …

Recent research has shown interactions between the process of keeping information
'online'in working memory, and the processes that select relevant information for a response …

Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …

Selective attention, the ability to focus our cognitive resources on information relevant to our
goals, influences working memory (WM) performance. Indeed, attention and working …

There is broad agreement that working memory is closely related to attention. This article
delineates several theoretical options for conceptualizing this link, and evaluates their …

The perceptual load and dilution models differ fundamentally in terms of the proposed
mechanism underlying variation in distractibility during different perceptual conditions …

Complex cognition relies on both on-line representations in working memory (WM), said to
reside in the focus of attention, and passive off-line representations of related information …

Recent behavioral and neuroscientific evidence speaks to the question of whether the
human focus of attention is limited to a single item or can accommodate several items. This …

Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between visual working memory and
selective attention, such that attention is biased by what is currently on our mind. However …